#34635: WordPress image's title is not alt
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Reporter: odie2 | Owner: joemcgill
Type: defect (bug) | Status: assigned
Priority: normal | Milestone: 4.7
Component: Media | Version: 4.3
Severity: normal | Resolution:
Keywords: has-patch has-unit- | Focuses: ui, accessibility,
tests | javascript
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Changes (by joemcgill):
* keywords: needs-patch early => has-patch has-unit-tests
Comment:
After much discussion with the A11y team—particularly
[https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/accessibility/p1473705362000503 this
Slack conversation]—it appears we would be better off not trying to
generate fallbacks for the `alt` attribute whenever an `alt` value has not
been explicitly set. Currently, if no `alt` value is set, WordPress tries
using the caption text before finally falling back to the title. While the
intent of these fallbacks is good, in practice they often result in
undesirable behavior for people using screen readers.
[attachment:34635.diff] removes the fallbacks so that an `alt` value will
always reflect the value of `_wp_attachment_image_alt` post meta for that
attachment (unless overridden by some other method). I've also added or
updated unit tests to reflect this change, but am not certain if some
QUnit tests for the editor might be needed. Would appreciate feedback from
@iseulde or @azaozz there.
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